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Capture of El Chapo's Son Incites Violence in Mexico

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0:00 yeah it's crazy to think you have all this structure and all these like things and contingencies and then it goes oh actually today yeah just stand on your roof with a gun and then you get arrested like what yeah but shouldn't we lecture some of those Koreans for having um [Music] all right let's talk about it y'all the cartel lays a Siege on a Mexican city to after the recapture of the son of El Chapo that's wild I've been seeing all these videos um coming from Mexico and it's crazy because the cartels uh the people their Firepower are their former like Special Forces the former Navy Seals and stuff so those guys when the sun got taken they're like okay we'll just start attacking Federal

0:50 buildings and it's like straight up like military style just boom this post office being blown up that's like a real option yeah it's like real Ops and you're like what the ████ and you it makes you go thank God our special ops guys have honor you know what I mean or they get paid well enough or they get paid way well enough and they don't turn on us because if they turned on us would be so ████ up you've seen people screaming or running on gas stations and ████ it's crazy I don't know if they're still like the big one because you know how they like different powerful cartels win right like but the Zetas or something they were formerly the Mexican Navy Seals that were trained by the U.S Navy Seals and they were like catching all the bad guys and they're just like wait a minute these drug deers are making way ████ more than we are as special ops guys and then they they became the cartel that's wild what's

1:41 crazy is our special ops guys don't even get paid that much damn but the honor I think I'm hating I think patriotism is a huge thing in this country so it helps like people have like their moral compass how much do you think those guys get paid um once they work for Blackwater quite a bit yeah when they turn into a mercenary and that's this that's the incentive yeah but the thing about it's like private companies and ████ yeah but the thing about becoming a mercenary is you get six figures finally so when you're not working you're not getting six figures yeah you know because uh those the the Mexican special off guys they were offered way more by the cartel to work for them smart that is smart so armed man took hostages burned vehicles and stormed an airport in northern Mexico on Thursday after Federal forces captured ovidio Guzman one of the World's Most Wanted cartel leaders and the son of imprisoned drug lord Joaquin Alexander Guzman

2:33 because like sometimes like let's get the sun it's like what did he do dude so he's actually in charge yeah he took over since uh America uh arrested El Chapo the 33 year old drug boss was arrested after a pre-dawn gunfight in a town north of the city of kuliacan I said that right um a stronghold of the Guzman Sinaloa cartel even as the cartel mounted attacks across the state the Air Force was able to fly the younger Guzman to Mexico City said Mexican Secretary of Defense so like they were able to still extract him from their city and got into Mexico City so what blows my mind is like so El Chapo got caught extradited right but he's still able to call shots and people still follow orders even while he's imprisoned because in like I would think that if you chop off the head of the organization then everyone else would just be like well he's gone

3:25 now well if his kid's in charge right what's his next head right like you take out the head it's like who's in there so the kid's in charge but then they pulled him into jail now right so then the first time actually in 2019 the kid was already in charge they did the same thing they ████ apprehended the Sun but the cartel responded similarly like like they just recently did but they were successful last time it was a bloody Siege in the same city in 2019. I think the president said that for public safety reasons we got to let them out because all these innocent people were getting yeah blunch people were getting ████ but then this time they're just like nah the crazy thing is whenever I see the cartel demonstrate the hold they have on Mexico it's just so freaking thankful that you live in this car oh dude for real like it's next door yeah one of the ones I recently read it was uh they found

4:15 a prison um where so I guess like when they like start taking apart the cartel members they don't disclose which jail he's at right obviously because then they'll just go and attack the jail yeah so they'll like hide and like send people to different jails somehow this uh the cartel found out were one of the high ranking members were at this jail 80 of them showed up and this is one at least super high security ones all the guards are like this right it's all covered they show up and they start just naming first and last names holy ████ and then they go if you don't let them go all of you guys are dead and then the guys that are like this are like let's just let them out of here because it's ████ crazy and then when they go inside when and then when the final when the the big authorities come when they finally go inside they find like ████

5:05 Tempur-Pedic mattresses safes full-on guns and weapons inside the inside so somehow all that ████ gets smuggled in there there's like 50 G's worth of money it's ████ crazy man so in October that first time that they tried to take Usman members of Mexico's newly formed National Guard rated a luxurious compound and subdued Guzman um who was leading some little cartel at the time but his agents were attempting to take him into custody hundreds of Sinaloa Fighters descended on the city taking hostages blocking intersections with burning vehicles and laying Siege to a housing complex for the families of military personnel oh eight people were killed families eight people eight people were killed on that stage back in 20 2009 that phrase is crazy hundreds descended upon the city yeah that's crazy there's like cartel loyalists or probably even people who aren't like officially part of the cartel that know to like stand up for the cartel in a situation like this so that they don't

5:55 get ████ later we saw well I mean I saw this video where there's like a convoy of cartel armored vehicles with mounted machine guns just coming in and just ████ up ████ like it looked like a real war zone and I was like dude that's ████ nuts man it just like makes it really like shows you how fragile peace in society truly is it's like their America itself is barely keeping it together in my opinion I feel like at any point it could just all go into chaos or even when we saw like the crazy riots and looting and all that stuff it was like that right right it was like organized society and then boom ████ REI is getting destroyed it's like yeah and it's like the the rooftop Koreans like for them to go you all are on your own yeah it's crazy to think you

6:47 have all this structure and all these like things and contingencies and then it goes oh actually today yeah just stand on your roof with a gun and then you get arrested like what yeah but shouldn't we lecture some of those Koreans for having guns and roofs I think we should especially after what they went through we should lecture them and and take their guns away yeah it's crazy how much of a plan B there isn't yeah in a lot of government the uh it says the recapture of Guzman came days before a scheduled visit to Mexico by President Biden the first trip to the country by U.S president since 2014 many speculated that Guzman's arrest was probably timed in part to please the Americans who have grumbled about the efficacy of the Mexican president's hugs not bullets crime fighting strategy and his protection of a former Defense Minister charged by the U.S prosecutors for collaborating with organized crime hugs now I like what I'm hearing yeah

7:37 Biden's supposed to go visit there yeah isn't that crazy well all this ████ is going down I mean but that's also another reason why the U.S is so badass that they're just like I don't care I'm still going oh well yeah I mean they'll shut down four blocks around them like like in L.A we can't even ████ move anywhere in L.A if the president's in town it's the president's wife's in town how do you even like tell how do you even convince an entire population of people that used to be poor until their cartel started that they should just stop doing that exactly how do you tell them that like logically it's like arguing with gang members it's like they're like cool this is the only place that ever protected me ever right right yeah they're like that's their last line of defense or their last hope of anything you're like just don't do that if you come from a community that don't believe in the state because the state has always been

8:29 making like ████ with you like even if you think about like um in Appalachia in those areas right like the hillbillies they don't even they don't trust the state because the state always took their kids the state and and then you know when they were laborers like they would work in the factories and things like that they would exploit them and they would hire private security to beat their asses up if they asked for higher wages things like that so like every single community that has been poor and they don't believe I mean like if you go down to Mexico too everyone knows that cops are going to pull you over and extort you so if you can't trust the the state then it makes it easy to basically start joining crime because then you're gonna go with an organization that's going to just pay you better hey dude I love lecturing gang members about how the United States will have your back you should just become a responsible voter and then you

9:20 watch billions of dollars go to Ukraine every other week yeah yeah dude for real every other week it's like okay they're coming to help you they'll come for you later they get your crane first then none of your opinion has any sway yep I love my country that's why Joe Biden's going over there he's gonna ████ whip those guys in a shape he's like why aren't you guys giving money to Ukraine huh what was that was saying saying this but they were they were like talking about how uh like life is a criminal like if that was your only thing that you could do logically you are making the right decision I think so yeah if your whole family's doing it generationally your uncle your aunt or whatever it is yeah it's like it's hard to like for people to like see the logic of like what why criminals do what they do it's like well if they don't do that and they starve or

10:10 they have nothing yeah what are they gonna do why wouldn't you people don't give them options and then their options tend to be something that if you look at just the difference in pay so for example like let's say uh you're you're you're a part-time low-level drug dealer even then you might be making like five grand a month or something ish right and then if you do like a x-cons job like let's say you're you're working at a butcher shop or maybe you're working like fast food or something um what is that 10 bucks an hour 13. you know like yeah like like you went from making a a x amount of dollars and you're just like dude like this is hard and I'm not used to this and also like people treat me mean and also like they don't know how to function in a in a corporate structure or like in that

11:01 type of world where there's a lot of passive aggressiveness yeah there's a lot of like political weird ████ like you know it's like people just taxes yeah or like the way that people talk to you like in in a in that kind of environment it's different like people can disrespect you a lot and no one throws fists right so then I think when you've been in that situation for so long it's a different culture you're walking into and then you're just like man ████ this ████ I'm going back to what I'm used to go back to something that's what scares me about Mexico is like they built that up to just basically be a corporation yeah and they're winning and you can't get rid of them and they can buy you now they got big business it's not like drug dealers out here nothing like that they got clean businesses too yeah I think mostly that's our next War that we're going to declare the cartels a terrorist organization no I don't

11:51 think so because it's too close there's no there's no threat to America like so they're already in America and it's a business organization versus a political or cultural like so it's like so for example right like because those burning cars are starting to arrive in San Diego and stuff but we got too many voters here you know what I mean there has just never been a War on Drugs that was winnable but I think the thing is there's a lot of people that profit from the war on drugs and it's main it's like maintainable so like once it gets to the point where they're ████ up Americans like innocent lives not gang members like if they're killing people in the community then things will get like tightened up but they're not gonna stop they can't ever stop the drug sales and Drug organizations and what I meant on the voters thing is like imagine being like

12:42 hey we got to vote for this War on Drugs and then like cartel takes like all the Hispanic people's like uh families hostages that are still in Mexico like vote against it you know what I mean it's like we have to we have so many of the Hispanic diaspora just like in America as well I think like with relatives with like the cartel specifically in Mexico would be it would be like Civil War yeah because it's just it's just it's a scary thought because it's right next door but the money's made here yeah yeah you know like all of the funneling is the drugs come here and the money's made here and they bring the money back yeah which is why it's symbiotic versus like that's why I think that it won't be uh that bad because the cartel needs U.S to purchase yeah and also if you think about places like Tulum and where they like Cancun and where the cartel is invested in it's safer than the rest of

13:34 Mexico I really think it'll never happen because it's too corrupted on both sides yeah I think you you'd be fighting your own organization and there's no there's no end game as in like so when the U.S goes into um a lot of other countries to go to war right there's an end game of either profiteering or some type of goal achieved whereas like here I don't really see where the winning like what what they were going to achieve unless it's like one of those kind of like a usurp thing where like they'll mask it as war against drugs but really they're just trying to do a regime Bingo yeah if look if Mexico ever started to act against U.S interests then we would absolutely go to war yeah that's what I mean by it's not affecting the income or it's not yeah but it's not a War on

14:24 Drugs it's more like they're just a hostile takeover and now cartels are American and it's not just one cartel too this is my my thing is that it's not just one cartel they're all fighting amongst each other so different heads of the snake would just keep popping out right and it's just different organizations so as long as one group is not like the Taliban that takes over everything then it's just gonna continue yeah and we're just realistically sewing the dark about whatever their whole thing is like there's no way that we know we don't even know what our own government does let alone what something like that is really planning at the top yeah we don't even know how to do the case and we need the cartel stuff because if we don't have ████ crazy cartel Generations We're not gonna have crazy sick Netflix shows you know we monetize off of other people suffering so well in this country if we did know

15:14 about JFK though think about the ramifications of that part like now you know all these people who were um working at the time to cover up for JFK we would know what their names are and that would be horrible didn't they just come out with the CIA uh there's actual involvement with the CIA with the JFK just came out and then people just glossed over it yeah we don't know right we don't they did gloss over it we know what was missing like these are Pages missing from what they have released and what they haven't released is like why are you withholding this it's so weird and then there's a leak about it potentially right so it's not like a saying there's a source but there's a source saying they didn't name them though it's be it's because they were involved yeah redacted Lisa are so funny it's like all right fine we'll give you the information and then you like cut out

16:05 90. it's not it's not explicitly stated but it's like enough to be able to draw that narrative and look they've worked us like this our whole lives where we all laugh about the redactions now we don't actually take it seriously as a populist We There is a them versus us going on and they openly admitted we don't represent you we're doing this for ourselves ████ like we are self-preserving right now and so we all see these huge document dumps with all these redactions and you see people on news on TV laughing about it because we're all so ████ used to it yeah like we're not supposed to have authority over government institutions they have authority over you that's where I feel like can be shaky as when we go back to the conversation of like um if the citizens don't trust the state right like if there's no sense of like community and like I believe in the organization in the institution that I'm

16:56 a part of then what's going to happen is Mexico 2.0 might be California 2.0 don't say that beautiful beaches ah beautiful woman [Music]

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